Oracle Data Guard

The definitive reference for every Oracle DBA—completely updated for Oracle Database 12c Oracle Database 12c DBA Handbook is the quintessential tool for the DBA with an emphasis on the big picture—enabling administrators to achieve effective and efficient database management. Fully revised to cover every new feature and utility, this Oracle Press guide shows how to harness cloud capability, perform a new installation, upgrade from previous versions, configure hardware and software, handle backup and recovery, and provide failover capability. The newly revised material features high-level and practical content on cloud integration, storage management, performance tuning, information management, and the latest on a completely revised security program. Shows how to administer a scalable, flexible Oracle enterprise database Includes new chapters on cloud integration, new security capabilities, and other cutting-edge features All code and examples available online

Using real-world examples and hands-on tasks, Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide will give you a solid foundation in Oracle Data Guard. It has been designed to teach you everything you need to know to successfully create and operate Data Guard environments with maximum flexibility, compatibility, and effectiveness.If you are an Oracle database administrator who wants to configure and administer Data Guard configurations, then "Oracle Data Guard 11gR2 Administration Beginner's Guide" is for you. With a basic understanding of Oracle database administration, you'll be able to easily follow the book.

Master Oracle Data Guard 11g Provide superior data protection, availability, and disaster recovery using the tested techniques in this Oracle Press guide. Cowritten by a team of Oracle experts, Oracle Data Guard 11g Handbook provides a sound architectural foundation along with best practices for configuration, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting. You will get full details on implementing deployment architectures to address requirements that extend beyond disaster recovery. This invaluable resource also includes a complete set of monitoring scripts available for download. Develop a disaster recovery plan for your Oracle database to meet your organization's requirements Configure and deploy Oracle Data Guard for your environment Tune and troubleshoot your physical and logical standby databases Implement the Oracle Data Guard Broker management framework Integrate with Oracle Grid Control Monitor your Oracle Data Guard environment Enable read-only services and disaster recovery with Oracle Active Data Guard Configure seamless database and application failover Minimize planned downtime using Oracle Data Guard switchover Handle backup and recovery with Oracle Recovery Manager

This guide for using Dataguard technology covers all areas of disaster recovery, standby databases, and automatic Oracle failover. The details of how Oracle10g's improved Dataguard provides a comprehensive solution for disaster recovery while keeping a low TCO are discussed. Descriptions of the concepts and architecture of standby databases as well as the implementation and management of Dataguard are provided. Tips for success in configuration and first-time implementation of Dataguard including the internal working of Dataguard Broker and Dataguard with Recovery Manager are revealed.

For who is this book ? This book is for all those wishing to protect their data stored in the RDBMS ORACLE. It assumes that the reader already knows the architecture of the Oracle database (9i Versions at minimum) Contents of the book The book comprises 11 chapters divided into two parts: I. - The first part dealing with the backup consists of four chapters The first chapter is devoted to the logical backup The second chapter deals with the physical backup The third chapter discusses the various flashback technologies The fourth chapter describes the duplication of a database and Tablespace Point in Time Recovery II - The second part dealing with DATA GUARD consists of seven chapters Begins with an overview of Data Guard in Chapter 5. It continues with chapters 6 and 7 which respectively describe how to create a physical standby database and a logical standby database. Chapter 8 discusses the data protection methods and redo log transfer services . Chapter 9 describes the permutations of roles and base change. Chapter 10 describes Fast Start Failover & Transparent Application Fail Over functionalities . Chapter 11, which closes the last part of the book, presents other accounts related to Data Guard . Form of the book The book is designed as a course. It outlines in a phased manner different fundamentals of Backup / Recovery and protection against disasters . The pedagogical approach used in this book will satisfy both the needs of : 1) Beginners readers with a minimal experience in running an Oracle database which will be guided throughout this book from a database creation to Data Guard implementation through the different backups / recoveries setups procedures . 2) Students, Engineers, Project Managers who already have a first experience in administering Oracle databases and want to broaden the concepts in order to : - Implementing advanced backup strategies - Effectively protecting their data against all types of failures. Many examples present in this book and the scripts which can be downloaded on the site www.tchoko-books.com will enable readers to implement effective strategies for Backup /Recovery and DATA GUARD management . The content is based on 11g version while highlighting the changes from the earlier versions 10g and 9i.

Work with Oracle database’s high-availability and disaster-management technologies. This book covers all the Oracle high-availability technologies in one place and also discusses how you configure them in engineered systems and cloud services. You will see that when you say your database is healthy, it is not limited to whether the database is performing well on day-to-day operations; rather it should also be robust and free from disasters. As a result, your database will be capable of handling unforeseen incidents and recovering from disaster with very minimal or zero downtime. Oracle High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Services explores all the high-availability features of Oracle database, how to configure them, and best practices. After you have read this book you will have mastered database high-availability concepts such as RAC, Data Guard, OEM 13c, and engineered systems (Oracle Exadata x6/x7 and Oracle Database Appliance). What You Will Learn Master the best practices and features of Exadata and ODA Implement and monitor high availability with OEM 13c Clone databases using various methods in Oracle 12c R2 Work with the Oracle sharding features of Oracle 12c R2 Who This Book Is ForOracle database administrators

Work with Oracle database’s high-availability and disaster-management technologies. This book covers all the Oracle high-availability technologies in one place and also discusses how you configure them in engineered systems and cloud services. You will see that when you say your database is healthy, it is not limited to whether the database is performing well on day-to-day operations; rather it should also be robust and free from disasters. As a result, your database will be capable of handling unforeseen incidents and recovering from disaster with very minimal or zero downtime. Oracle High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Services explores all the high-availability features of Oracle database, how to configure them, and best practices. After you have read this book you will have mastered database high-availability concepts such as RAC, Data Guard, OEM 13c, and engineered systems (Oracle Exadata x6/x7 and Oracle Database Appliance). What You Will Learn Master the best practices and features of Exadata and ODA Implement and monitor high availability with OEM 13c Clone databases using various methods in Oracle 12c R2 Work with the Oracle sharding features of Oracle 12c R2 Who This Book Is ForOracle database administrators

This text concentrates on explaining 10g technologies and practices to database administrators; covering general availability; real application clusters (RAC); disaster planning and recovery; and distributed database solutions. --